SWEDISH RADIO CREATES SCARE
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 28 (Rec. 10.30 a.m.).-—Telephone calls, letters and telegrams of protest flooded the Swedish Broadcasting; Corporation after a broadcast last night based on similar lines to Orson Welles’ “Invasion from Mars.” Listeners who missed the introduction, stating that the broadcast concerned the year 1812, panicked when the.announcer'saicl that “Swedish forces are putting up only a weak resistance to the invading Western Power and Sweden will be forced to change her policy in this longexpected clash between East and West.” One woman caught in the bath ran out naked and screaming. The radio station has offered free headache pills to anyone writing in claiming that the station has incited their “war jitters.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1950, Page 5
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